Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5118 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5118

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal 
    prohibition on the public release of the name of a Federal law 
      enforcement officer with the intent to obstruct a criminal 
          investigation or immigration enforcement operation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 3, 2025

  Mr. Ogles introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal 
    prohibition on the public release of the name of a Federal law 
      enforcement officer with the intent to obstruct a criminal 
          investigation or immigration enforcement operation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Law Enforcement from 
Doxxing Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PUBLIC RELEASE OF NAME OF FEDERAL LAW 
              ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.

    (a) In General.--Section 1510 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``and immigration 
        enforcement operations'' after ``criminal investigations''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Releasing Name of Federal Law Enforcement Officer.--
            ``(1) Definition.--In this section, the term `Federal law 
        enforcement officer' means any officer, agent, or employee of 
        the United States authorized by law or by a Government agency 
        to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, 
        investigation, or prosecution of any violation of Federal 
        criminal law or immigration law.
            ``(2) Offense.--It shall be unlawful to make the name of a 
        Federal law enforcement officer publicly available with the 
        intent to obstruct a criminal investigation or immigration 
        enforcement operation.
            ``(3) Penalty.--Any person who violates paragraph (2) shall 
        be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 5 
        years, or both.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Table of sections.--The table of sections for chapter 
        73 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
        item relating to section 1510 and inserting the following:

``1510. Obstruction of criminal investigations and immigration 
                            enforcement operations.''.
            (2) Other amendments.--
                    (A) Section 1961(1) of title 18, United States 
                Code, is amended by inserting after ``section 1510 
                (relating to obstruction of criminal investigations'' 
                the following: ``and immigration enforcement 
                operations''.
                    (B) Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States 
                Code, is amended by inserting after ``section 1510 
                (obstruction of criminal investigations'' the 
                following: ``and immigration enforcement operations''.
                    (C) Section 3142(h)(2)(C) of title 18, United 
                States Code, is amended by inserting after ``1510 
                (relating to obstruction of criminal investigations'' 
                the following: ``and immigration enforcement 
                operations''.
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